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And walking it back will help... how?
If anything, he needs to expand on how the DNC coddles these people, keep them in their place, so the DNC can continue to trick them into voting for them.
He needs to walk this back ASAP. I can just imagine the attack ads the DNC has lined up with these kind of quotes from Romney.
And walking it back will help... how?
If anything, he needs to expand on how the DNC coddles these people, keep them in their place, so the DNC can continue to trick them into voting for them.
hope he's concerned with his poor choice of words...
You look concerned about the very poor...
Daily Show hit a home run with this one
"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation to English of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. Since brioche was enriched, as opposed to normal bread, the quote supposedly would reflect the princess's obliviousness to the condition of the people.
A Clarification from Mitt Romney
LA JOLLA, CA – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today released the following letter to the American people:
Dear American People:
Yesterday, comments I made about poor people made me look terrible. This always seems to happen when I say what I really believe.
The fact is, I do care about poor people. That’s because I’m poor myself, when you compare me to Mark Zuckerberg.
According to most projections, Facebook’s IPO should net Mr. Zuckerberg a personal fortune of $28 billion. I couldn’t make a pile of dough-re-mi like that even if I fired people twenty-four hours a day.
Now, let’s take a look at Mitt Romney’s net worth: a measly $200 million. Now do you see why I consider myself poor? Compared to Mark Zuckerberg, Mitt Romney is practically a crack .
Now, I’m not going to sit here and envy a rich person like Mark Zuckerberg. That’s exactly what President Obama wants poor people like me to do. Mark Zuckerberg made his money fair and square, by creating useful products like imaginary sheep and angry birds. Say what you will about Facebook, it has totally revolutionized the way we waste our lives.
The fact is, if you’re poor in America, you should do what Mark Zuckerberg did: create a social network. I’ve just started my own, called TwoFaceBook. With TwoFaceBook, your profile doesn’t stay the same for more than two seconds.
In closing, there’s one more reason I don’t worry about poor people. They have Groupons.
Vote for me,
Mitt Romney
http://www.borowitzreport.com/
brioche is more of a patisserie/pastry than a boulangerie/baker daily bread
I get Romney's point and it makes sense.
He should have chosen his words better though.
The Middle Class people have gotten the shaft for years. But its from both the right and the left they have gotten the shaft from.
I get his point in that he would like to do more for the middle class, but based on history, I find it more of a vote getting maneuver.
I would love for a politician to just come out there and say the rich, the poor, my goal is to actually do something that benefits the largest group of people being the middle classes.
But its a system of extremes whether its stated overtly or not.
no, it doesn't make sense.
the poor and very poor are ALWAYS worse off, by definition, than the middle-class voters Willard Gecko is courting.
WG's economic/budget plans also cut bigger holes in the safety net. He has NO intention of finding holes, since he won't look for them, other than to make them bigger.
His gaffe exposes his and Repugs' real, sociopathic position and policies.
But that wopuld be too cons utional for a candidate...
Promote the general welfare
Romeny basically did that. Problem is he's a Republican so no one believes he actually cares about the middle class
Middle Class Republicans are still waiting for Reagan's economy to trickle down to them
I guess you weren't around during the Carter years......believe me, Regan's economyMiddle Class Republicans are still waiting for Reagan's economy to trickle down to them
did trickle down and none too soon. I was tired of seeing 20 percent interest rates
on buying homes. Do you remember a little thing called the "misery index".
Reagan's 1st term was a complete disaster & then he started selling Americans out for his own poersonal glory. Knowing he would be a brain dead fish living on a ranch in a couple years
This country still has not recovered from the bull he put in place. Carter saw the writing on the wall and warned the ignorant and naive Americans but they didn't want to hear the truth and now the Middle Class is in the position it is.
Americans have only themselves to blame for electing an actor known as the Teflon President. Link to Carter selling weapons to terrorist or going behind the Presidents back and negotiating with terrorist? I'm not even mentioning the complete abomination of Reagans domestic policies
"Regan's economy did trickle down and none too soon"
You Lie
My, my, my. I must have hit a nerve. Seems our little communist and
liberal get all upset when the truth is spoken.
Regggie was most probably the greatest President in mine and your time.
I can understand Boutons getting all upset, he ran the Communist out
of town and out of business in Russian and many other countries.
But no sweat, we got Obama to fill in where Carter let off.
Reagan knew a thing or two about living off the government credit card...
lol star wars
I'm not so sure that Mitt talking about helping the struggling middle class and Obama focusing on the plight of the poor would be so damaging to Mitt in the general.
Teflon President. Lied to your face & made deals with the enemy to help his legacy. As time goes by, Reagan is exposed more and moreMy, my, my. I must have hit a nerve. Seems our little communist and
liberal get all upset when the truth is spoken.
Regggie was most probably the greatest President in mine and your time.
I can understand Boutons getting all upset, he ran the Communist out
of town and out of business in Russian and many other countries.
But no sweat, we got Obama to fill in where Carter let off.
So let me get this straight. The guy who was mentally impaired through half of his Presidency is the ''Greatest President in our time''
I think that says it all about America Post 1970's
"Regggie was most probably the greatest President in mine and your time."
- Reagan was a serial tax raiser. As governor of California, Reagan “signed into law the largest tax increase in the history of any state up till then.” Meanwhile, state spending nearly doubled.
- Reagan nearly tripled the federal budget deficit. During the Reagan years, the debt increased to nearly $3 trillion, “roughly three times as much as the first 80 years of the century had done altogether.”
- Unemployment soared after Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts. Unemployment jumped to 10.8 percent after Reagan enacted his much-touted tax cut, and it took years for the rate to get back down to its previous level. Meanwhile, income inequality exploded.
- Reagan grew the size of the federal government tremendously. Reagan promised “to move boldly, decisively, and quickly to control the runaway growth of federal spending,” but federal spending “ballooned” under Reagan. He bailed out Social Security in 1983 after attempting to privatize it, and set up a progressive taxation system to keep it funded into the future.
- Reagan did little to fight a woman’s right to chose. As governor of California in 1967, Reagan signed a bill to liberalize the state’s abortion laws that “resulted in more than a million abortions.”
- Reagan was a “bellicose peacenik.” He wrote in his memoirs that “[m]y dream…became a world free of nuclear weapons.”
- Reagan gave amnesty to 3 million undo ented immigrants. Reagan signed into law a bill that made any immigrant who had entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty.
- Reagan illegally funneled weapons to Iran. Reagan and other senior U.S. officials secretly sold arms to officials in Iran, which was subject to a an arms embargo at the time, in exchange for American hostages. Some funds from the illegal arms sales also went to fund anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua — something Congress had already prohibited the administration from doing.
- Reagan vetoed a comprehensive anti-Apartheid act. which placed sanctions on South Africa and cut off all American trade with the country. Reagan’s veto was overridden by the Republican-controlled Senate.
- Reagan helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. Reagan fought a proxy war with the Soviet Union by training, arming, equipping, and funding Islamist mujahidin fighters in Afghanistan. Reagan funneled billions of dollars, along with top-secret intelligence and sophisticated weaponry to these fighters through the Pakistani intelligence service. The Talbian and Osama Bin Laden — a prominent mujahidin commander — emerged from these mujahidin groups Reagan helped create, and U.S. policy towards Pakistan remains strained because of the intelligence services’ close relations to these fighters.
^ Utter Failure ^
But the wealthy got wealthier. If you aren't wealthy & you pound the Reagan drum.....you are an uneducated, ignorant, & naive sheep.
Simple as that
"What do I think of the very poor?"
He admitted it was a misstep and clarified it on Hannity, saying he cared about all Americans and wanted to focus on lifting them out of poverty. I think he should've said his "focus" is on middle-income Americans getting squeezed, because that was the intent of his message.
I think SDI was a worthwhile expenditure. I believe they are still developing some of the weapon ideas.
^ of course you think it was worthwhile... the program was targeted specifically to ignoramus like you.
I'm sure you're also happy that we're probably still paying interest in the money St Ronnie borrowed to spend on that project.
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